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Agency responsible:

Rwanda Standards Board (RSB)

KK 15 Rd, 49

P.O.BOX 7099, Kigali, Rwanda

Tel: +250 788303492

Email: info@rsb.gov.rw

Website: www.rsb.gov.rw

Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:

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Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], 3.2 [ ], 7.2 [ ], other:

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Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Cereals, pulses and derived products (ICS code(s): 67.060)

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Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: DEAS 1236: 2024, Fortified milled rice— Specification; (78 page(s), in English)

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Description of content: This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for fortified milled rice of the varieties grown from rice grains, (Oryza spp.) intended for human consumption.

This standard applies to both milled and brown rice.

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Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: National security requirements; Prevention of deceptive practices and consumer protection; Protection of human health or safety; Protection of the environment; Quality requirements; Harmonization; Cost saving and productivity enhancement

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Relevant documents:

AOAC 2004.05, Total folates in cereal and cereal foods — Microbiological Assay-Trienzyme Procedure

AOAC 2011.14, Calcium, Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Potassium, Phosphorus, Sodium and Zinc in fortified food products. Microwave Digestion and Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometry

AOAC 953.17, Thiamine (vitamin B1) in grain products. Fluorometric (rapid) method

AOAC 961.15, Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine,pyridoxal,pyridoxamine) in food extracts. Microbiological method

AOAC 975.41, Niacin and niacinamide in cereal products. Automated method

CXS 193, General standard for contaminants and toxins in food and feed

EAS 128, Milled rice — Specification

EAS 38, Labelling of pre-packaged foods — General requirements

EAS 39, Hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry — Code of practice

EAS 765, Brown rice — Specification

EAS 803, Nutrition labelling — Requirements

EAS 804, Claims on foods — General requirements

EAS 805, Use of nutrition and health claims — Requirements

EAS 900, Cereals, pulses and their products — Sampling

EAS 901, Cereals, pulses and their products — Test methods

ISO 16649-2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the enumeration of beta-glucuronidase-positive Escherichia coli — Part 2: Colony-count technique at 44 degrees C using 5- bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl beta-D-glucuronide

ISO 20634, Infant formula and adult nutritionals Determination of vitamin B12 by reversed phase high

performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC)

ISO 21527-2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the enumeration of yeasts and moulds — Part 2: Colony count technique in products with water activity less than or equal to 0,95

ISO 6579-1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the detection, enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella — Part 1: Detection of Salmonella spp.

ISO 6888-1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the enumeration of coagulase-positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and other species) — Part 1: Method using Baird-Parker agar medium

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Proposed date of adoption: To be determined

Proposed date of entry into force: To be determined

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Final date for comments: 60 days from notification

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Texts available from: National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:

Mr. Johnny Uwimana Hassan

WTO/TBT Enquiry point

Rwanda Standards Board

KK 15 Rd, 49

Kigali

Tel: Hotline: 3250; +(250) 788636510

Fax: +(250)788303492

Email: info@rsb.gov.rw; johnny.uwimana@rsb.gov.rw

Website: http://www.rsb.gov.rw

https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2025/TBT/RWA/25_00197_00_e.pdf